BigDan1190

Budget (including currency): Ideally less than £300 (GBP) but could stretch if its really worth it Country: UK Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Mainly Warzone (and WZ 2.0), Rocket League, Battlefield games - also some light design work, Fusion 360 and 3D printing slicers. Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Current PC and set up - Ryzen 3700X, 16GB RAM, GTX1080. Current monitor is an Asus VG248QE (24", 1080p, 144hz TN panel), i also have 2 supplementary monitors, just some random 24" 1080p. Ideally i'm looking for 1440p, 144/165hz, 1ms response time, IPS panel, Gsync. I understand VA panels are prone to motion blur and this would drive me CRAZY so i do need a fast IPS monitor. Size I believe 27" is the ideal but i'm happy with 30" also. I sit about 55cm away from the monitor. I have looked at a few options on Amazon but i can't bring myself to trust reviews on there these days. Any advice would be much appreciated :)

Its not thermal throttling. Its running at max boost, i have tried it overclocked running stable at 2050mhz boost.

In BF5 - around 70 on High.

Hi all, I've recently build a new ITX rig, specs below - the gtx1080 card i bought is not performing as well as i expected and I see in task manager it is only sitting at around 70% usage. I have tried re-installing drivers, its a fresh windows install and i've checked in the games and geforce control panel that I am not using Vsync. I have a 144hz monitor and I would like to utilise it Specs Ryzen 3700X ASrock b450 gaming ITX mobo Corsair 16GB DDR4 3600mhz C18 ram Corsair SF600 psu MSI gtx 1080 CPU is sitting at around 50-55% usage so i can't see how it would be a CPU bottleneck. XMP isn't working for the RAM so its not running at 3600mhz, just the default 2666mhz but I wouldn't expect that to bottleneck the GPU... Any advice please? Cheers, Dan EDIT: If I run a heaven benchmark it will run at 99-100%.

Hi all No idea what was causing this, all I had done on the day was try restarting it, twas still the same. No big file changes or anything so it wasn't indexing. But anyway i've come home today and its randomly now working at 50-60MB! Ghosts in the system as they say. Cheers gents

Hi guys, My 2nd thread in as many days, my apologies - I've finally gotten a gigabit switch to release me from the awful 10/100 situation with max speeds of 12MB. I'm now getting a healthy 45MB/s when transferring files from PC -> NAS. But when transferring files from NAS -> PC I'm only getting 2MB/s. Can anyone hazard a guess as to why? NAS is a DNS-320L with a single 3TB drive in it. I know that the NAS is limited to sata2, shouldn't be a bottleneck in this situation.

Lurick, thanks for your help - it arrived, plugged in and i'm getting gigabit connection to the NAS, now transferring at like 45MB instead of 12MB (slow NAS, but meh). Very happy

Thanks Lurick. Switch arrives tonight so I'll give it a go and update this thread. I'm assuming the router will assign everything the same subnet but will play around and ask for help if needs be.

Awesome, thanks man I appreciate the confirmation.

For fucks sake, DUDE, I'm not being snarky i'm trying to get you to stop filling up this thread with information that i already know and DIDN'T ask for. I shouldn't have to justify why you shouldn't give irrelevant and alternative answers. THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP. MANY KIND REGARDS. Jeez.

loool, with 1 port Dude, thanks, but please leave this alone now as i'm looking for a specific answer. I still need a switch for various reasons, hence why i'm asking quite a specific question. This is why you shouldn't answer forum posts if you don't know the answer, suggesting alternative answers isn't helpful in this particular situation. Cheers EDIT: Forgot to mention, i require passthrough also as the socket in my room is a single outlet.

I appreciate that but thats not what i'm asking for. Here in the UK its around £90 which i believe is around $120. Also, I can get an 8 port gigabit switch for £18 which i'm sure you'll agree is much better suited to my needs (allows for expansion).

Hi all. My current networking set up is a bit restricted but i'm trying to make the most of it ISP router in modem mode -> my Netgear D7000 router -> powerline adaptor (downstairs) -> 2 port powerline adaptor (my room) -> cat6 to my PC and cat6 to my NAS Now, the powerlines are relatively cheap but I get a solid 60-80Mb from the broadband downstairs so i'm happy. Now, the NAS can do 1GB but is currently being restricted by the 100Mb powerline. If i were to get a 1Gb switch in my room (so, powerline -> switch -> PC and NAS), would my PC be able to access the NAS at 1GB speeds or would it need to go via the router and still be restricted? Cheers, Dan

Hi all, I have a cheap and basic NAS (Dlink DNS-320L) and for a long time I've had it running through a 10/100 powerline getting 10.8MB/s speeds, I've finally got a gigabit connection to it now and am finally getting the speeds its capable of, 45MB/s ish. However, I'm getting very steadily fluctuating transfer speeds between 45 and 28MB/s; This (for testing purposes) is done transferring large game backups connected directly from my PC to the NAS with a cat6 cable. I can't think why it has this variation, anyone have any ideas? Many thanks, Dan

How come you don't just mod the standard side panel? Cut it so theres only a thin portion of metal around the edge, just enough to fit on to the case, and hole the glass in place.